This is not a weekend where anything will be decided about Swansea's future as a Premier League club.

But it is a weekend where we will find out whether they are ready have a say in those decisions.

Because while nothing will be certain by the time the final whistle blows against Everton however the result goes, the picture will become clear. Brilliantly or brutally so.

There will be those who wake up on Saturday morning unable to contain optimistic excitement that this is the day where the steps forward of recent weeks turn into a giant stride, that the sun will go down with Swansea out of the relegation places. A surprise Sunderland result at Hull compiled with victory over Everton would put Paul Clement's side into 17th by a point – or a better goal difference – with two games to see the season out.

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Saturday is a big day for Swansea City (Image: Huw Evans Picture Agency)

But there are those who will not be able to escape the nerves gnawing away at them through thoughts of waking on Sunday, staring at a top-flight table that spells out a stark reality of probable, inevitable relegation. Those of a pessimistic nature will not need telling Swansea could end the day five points from safety with only six points left to play for. Four points (the scenario if Hull win and Swansea draw) would be bad enough given it would then be left relying on the Tigers being tamed for two games on the trot.

This season – one that has jammed more mistakes and mediocrity into nine months than the six top-flight seasons before it – has long threatened the worst, a worst it has deserved at times, but we are approaching the period of retribution.

The room for error has gone along with the time for sympathy or self-pity.

Swansea may well be facing a team just shy of the top six and so demanding victory may seem unfair or unrealistic.

But the fact of the matter is that they blew chances in this resurgent second-half of the season to make it easier for themselves against easier opposition. Or for a win over Middlesbrough at home. What for just a point at Watford or West Ham, let alone thoughts of what could have been with victory at Hull.

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They have ended up having to do this the hard way. How else can you describe keeping out Romelu Lukaku and getting past Ashley Williams, a player all Swans fans will frustratingly know won't give an inch even on his return to a club of such affinity. Ronald Koeman, a man of stern expectations, will not have let up on his players after being beaten by three by Chelsea last weekend.

It could be daunting, but it could be pivotal.

Because with Clement being very much one of the group that wakes up with confident excitement about this day, there is one huge advantage to facing such a test and such a stark choice between fight or flight.

Namely that this can be the day where it is irrefutably shown that Swansea are going to ask every question of Hull that has been asked of themselves.

This can be the day where they show themselves and their rivals that they aren't going quietly, that they are not the team that stared at the ground in desperate dejection against Watford, against Bournemouth, up at Middlesbrough where they looked every inch a group deservedly destined for the Championship.

It can be the day where, while Hull have to continue to play above themselves, Swansea can do so too and find themselves bettering others around them.

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Do Swansea City have the mental edge over Hull? (Image: Huw Evans Picture Agency)

It can be the day where the progress made under Clement – regardless of that hurtful six-game stretch – counts for something having come in with the side seemingly down and out at the turn of the year.

They have what it takes. It is seen in individual quality, something that has not been nearly consistent enough right through the group but is still there in many of the players.

They have shown they have developed a strong mindset, one that overcame issues at Manchester United to put in one of their better performances, one that did not buckle when the pressure was on and the do-or-die tone was set by Clement for the game against Stoke.

They must channel the desperation of the situation, not into freezing in fear, but into finding extra energy and adrenaline, something an Everton side who may well be thinking of the beach should not be able to match. The counters have to be quicker, the passes sharper, the fifty-fiftys won.

And they have the chance to put it all together at a time where you feel if Swansea are going to do this, it has to come now. Take a stroll around Swansea and the consensus is there: win this and there is a chance.

Do so, regardless of the earlier result on the Humber, and the Tawe will run fast and full of belief that this can be done.

Fail to, and all the hard luck stories in the world won't matter a jot.

This is not decision day, but it is pivotal. Come 7.15pm, we will have a far better idea if time is soon to be up on Swansea, or if there is time to believe again.